Vancouver
Saturday, June 3
The underground press gets off to a
rewarding start in Vancouver. While the
two local dailies posted no song details at all, and devoted far more column
inches to the spectacular riot action outside the arena, the Georgia Straight
and Disc reviewers help us clear up the slight mystery arising
from our two boot CD versions of this concert and its hallowed, rarities-laden
set. Specifically, we see that Vancouver
First Night (Off Beat) is wrong to place Honky Tonk Women after Street
Fighting Man as an apparent encore, and carries only 17 of a reported 18
songs. On the other hand, the competing
Vancouver 72 (Idol Mind), carries a full 18-song repertoire with
what must now be considered the true, mid-show placement of Honky Tonk
Women.
There is no independent evidence yet to
confirm the lone reference here to an opening performance by Martha Reeves and
the Vandellas. [UPDATE:
A credible, corroborating press reference to Martha Reeves has been found! See the second New Musical Express clipping
below.]
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Georgia Straight |
The Grape |
Rolling Stone |
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The Sun |
The Province |
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Brown Sugar |
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Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
no songs named |
no songs named |
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Rocks Off |
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Rocks Off |
Rocks Off |
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Gimme Shelter |
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Gimme Shelter |
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Bitch |
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Tumbling Dice |
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Happy |
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Honky Tonk Women |
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Ventilator Blues |
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Sweet Virginia |
Sweet Virginia |
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YCAGWYW |
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Midnight Rambler |
Midnight Rambler |
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Midnight Rambler |
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All Down The Line |
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Bye Bye Johnny |
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Rip This Joint |
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JJF |
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JJF |
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SFM |
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SFM |
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Jagger: “white satin jump suit” “fully half of the 18 songs played were
from Exile” no encore after SFM: “no matter
how long the audience wailed they wouldn’t come back” |
Jagger: “dressed all in white” Opening: Stevie Wonder, Martha Reeves
and the Vandellas |
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Jagger: “in
good-guy white satin scarf, shirt, and strides, white shoes and black leather
jacket” “no encore”
after SFM Opening:
Stevie Wonder |
Jagger: “got
up in a skin of white velvet, a grey silk scarf and a black leather jacket” Opening:
Stevie Wonder |
Jagger: “in
satin and leather” Opening:
Stevie Wonder |
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Rolling Stone: “The show lasts an hour and 40
minutes, Keith blows two guitars, and the Stones get to test which songs
they’ll be using on the rest of the tour. ‘The first one’s always a dress
rehearsal for us,’ Mick says the next morning.” The Province: “Traditionally rough and messy
and strong, the Stones were rough and messy and strong on Saturday, launching
into a set that caught fire – and then gradually flickered out. Familiar to
begin with, the central segment relied on slow blues and new material from
the Exile on Main Street album – much of which, lyrically inaudible,
left little impression except as an extension of Rolling Stones style. And,
when they had almost lost the energy, almost rolled to a point of musical
inertia, they saved themselves with familiarity again – something
recognizable to cheer for, songs that one knew the words to so it didn’t
matter if the sound was turning to spaghetti halfway down the room.” |
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Selected
Press Clippings
Georgia
Straight1 * 2 * 3
[Some Province and Sun images are hard to read owing to poor focus or blurring in the original microfilm.]
